No injuries or hazardous spills have been reported in a train derailment in a southeastern South Dakota town that also saw a rail bridge partially collapse. The derailment happened shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday in North Sioux City, the Union County Emergency Management office said in social media posts. Nineteen […]

Gil Brandt, overshadowed by coach Tom Landry and general manager Tex Schramm as part of the trio that built the Dallas Cowboys into “America’s Team” in the 1970s, has died. He was 91. The Pro Football Hall of Fame said Brandt died Thursday morning. No cause of death was given, […]

The Washington Post’s chief fact-checker Glenn Kessler took exception to several stories President Biden has repeatedly told about his life to connect with audiences in a piece Thursday. Kessler went through several recurring anecdotes that Biden has shared with crowds over the years and detailed how many of them were […]

South Carolina police on Wednesday said the fatal shooting of a college student who knocked on the wrong door was justified under the state’s Stand Your Ground law, which allows residents to defend themselves and their property with firearms. After consulting with the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office, the Columbia Police […]

A shooting that left a faculty member dead and frightened students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has galvanized gun safety advocates and local Democrats, who rallied the grieving campus community Wednesday to fight for stricter state gun laws. About 600 students held protest signs on a […]

Video has captured police in eastern Nebraska pulling over a driver who had a massive bull riding shotgun in his car.  The bizarre traffic stop carried out by the Norfolk Police Division happened Wednesday morning after authorities received a call of a man driving eastbound on Interstate 274 with an […]

Former adult film star Jenna Jameson is giving fans an update on her recovery after a health scare left her hospitalized for nearly a year. Jameson, 49, opened up about her mystery illness that left her with “extreme muscle weakness,” which she later claimed doctors attributed to a “multitude” of […]

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three of his cabinet ministers ate seafood sourced from the waters off the coast of Fukushima, where the country released treated radioactive wastewater from its power plants, in hopes of dismissing concerns about the quality and safety of the food. “It is important to […]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Indiana Department of Corrections on behalf of a transgender inmate, Jonathan C. Richardson, also known as Autumn Cordellionè, who was convicted of strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter to death in 2001. A recent Indiana law, adopted July 1, prohibits the Department of […]

Former President Trump claimed he averted a “nuclear holocaust” via his diplomacy with North Korea. Trump made the comments in a deposition for his New York civil fraud case, which was recently released to the public. “I was very busy. I was — I considered this the most important job […]